Plant: to 35mm tall, leaves heart-shaped with a prominent pointed tip. Flowers at or above the leaf

Flowers: the broad helmet-shaped dorsal sepal that encloses the labellum often has a pimpled surface has only a few pale reddish markings. Labellum trowel-shaped midlobe with a ragged lower margin is a deeply cleft.

Flowering: September to November.

Habitat: Moist mountain beech forest and alpine fringes. Ruapehu to Nelson. Tolerates snow.

Conservation: Common and unthreatened.

Notes: A pale green montane to alpine form close to C. vitreus. Was tagged C. “triwhite”.

Key features: flower with almost complete lack of red on the green rather translucent labellum.